Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good will can easily subscribe to most of the economic goals which the churchmen propose. They say: "The pre-war minimum standard of life and education was out of all proportion to the wealth-producing capacity of the community...
...draft officials wanted a bill which made men between 19 and 45 liable for active service. They figured that there were 30,000,000 in the group, about one-fourth of whom were fit for service. But the Military Affairs Committee gagged, finally passed an amendment which set the minimum age at 21. If the bill passes Congress in that form, original calculations will have to be revised, draft officials will have to look more sharply at married men and men with dependents. Some Congressmen vowed they would fight to have the 19-year minimum restored. But whatever bill passes...
...years the rails could pay the wage increase out of present earnings-by turning over to labor more than half the increase in their long-too-low profits (which were $359,700,000 for the first nine months of this year). But next year, with an absolute minimum of new equipment to handle wartime traffic, the rails may reach the point of diminishing returns, and their earnings may suffer...
...Council's theory that, in case of an attack, everybody in the county should stay put. Apart from the fact that the Army will need all roads in case of emergency, the business of evacuating Los Angeles County would take, at the minimum, 16 days. Another Council theory is: no blackouts. Instead, it plans to try out a system of changing light patterns. Thus, in case of trouble, traffic on Wilshire Boulevard (from the air, a steady band of light) would be shifted to other streets. Similar shifts are in order for other major arteries, but precise details...
Harlow confides that he still does not "know whether Forte or Morgan is the better right end," and compares Don McNicol to Vernon Struck "the Magnificent Faker" of the 1937 team. Generalities are kept to a minimum by Harlow, but he does deviate enough to suggest that "I have found through many bitter lessons that there is no substitute for experience, and that Sophomores are a bad risk, particularly in the backfield...